Gary Smith vs Rami Rahim

Gary Smith

CEO of CIENA CORPORATION

BIO: Mr. Gary B. Smith has been Principal Executive Officer of Cyan, Inc. since August 3, 2015. Mr. Smith has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of Ciena Corporation since May 2001. Mr. Smith serves as the President of CIENA Communications, Inc. He served as the Chief Operating Officer of Ciena Corporation from October 2000 to November 4, 2005. He served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Ciena Corporation from August 1999 to October 2000. He resumed primary responsibilities for Ciena Corporation.'s worldwide sales efforts in November 2002. He served as Senior Vice President Worldwide Sales of Ciena Corporation from September 1998 to August 1999 and served as its Vice President of International Sales since joining in November 1997. From June 1995 to October 1997, He served as Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Intelsat Investments S.A and Cray Communications Inc. He has been a Director of Avaya Inc. since December 6, 2011. He serves as a Director of Valaran Corporation. He served as a Lead Director of Commvault Systems, Inc. since May 2006 and has been its Director since May 2004. He has been a Director of Ciena Corporation. since October 2000. He served as a Director at Avaya Holdings Corp. He serves as a Director for the American Electronics Association. Mr. Smith is a member of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, the Global Information Infrastructure Commission and the Center for Corporate Innovation (CCI). Mr. Smith received his master's in business administration from Ashridge Management College, United Kingdom.

Rami Rahim

CEO of Juniper Networks

BIO: Mr. Rami Rahim has been the Chief Executive Officer of Juniper Networks, Inc. since November 2014. Mr. Rahim served as an Executive Vice President and General Manager of Platform Systems Division at Juniper Networks, Inc. from October 2012 to November 2014. Mr. Rahim responsible for driving strategy, development and business growth for juniper's entire portfolio of routing, switching, branch and wlan products, as well as for the ongoing evolution of our silicon technology and the junos operating systems. He is a 15-year veteran of Juniper Networks and leads Juniper's largest business unit focused on edge and aggregation routing. He joined juniper in January 1997. He served juniper in a number of roles, including senior vice president and gm of the edge and aggregation business unit and vice president of product management for eabu. He spent the majority of his time at juniper in the development organization where he helped with the architecture, design and implementation of many juniper core, edge and carrier ethernet products. He has been Director of Juniper Networks, Inc. since November 2014. He holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the university of toronto and a master of science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford university.